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The Half Marathon is Close, Tackling a Snowy Saturday Run

ByTim Nolte
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It was a tough cold, windy, snowy, slippery morning for a “long” run but I got it done. No matter how a run goes I don’t think I can ever think of a time where when I was done I thought to myself I wish I wouldn’t have gone in that run. It’s only the times when I’ve skipped a run that I’ve though I wish I would have gone on that run.

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